I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
Gary Paulsen
CarTruckPlaceEarthMoreDogs
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
Louise Leakey
TimePlaceEarthCousinsPlanetUs
The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.
Timothy Morton
EarthGoGarbageHumanProducts
I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.
David Grinspoon
ScienceEarthNASAWillDefendGot
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
Zosia Mamet
ThoughtEarthPlacesUpMagical
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.
Yayoi Kusama
ChildhoodSunMoonEarthHumanDots
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Ami Ayalon
SailWindEarthKnowWillCaptain
The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
Anthony Mackie
GoodGreatPeopleCoolDownEarth
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus
LightFeetLaughYouEarthKnow
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
Nicholas Mosley
StyleYouEarthPageKnowWay
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
Fatty Arbuckle
PeopleBelieveLaughMissionEarth
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
GodBelieveEarthOrdinaryUsPut
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.
Norman Geisler
AgeBelieveUniverseMeasureEarth
Even as our unwitting alterations to Earth's carbon and hydrological cycles slowly make storms more damaging, our ability to monitor our planet from space and make reliable short-term forecasts have equipped us enormously to withstand them.
SpaceEarthMoreAbilityStormsUs
Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
Yotam Ottolenghi
CultureSoupFaceEarthChickenOwn
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
John Podhoretz
ChangeHopeEarthNewVoteHim
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.
Annie Besant
GrowthEarthNothingRaceHumanUp
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Henry Morton Stanley
NatureChildrenSkyEarthSmiles
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong
EarthOutUpPlanetPlanet Earth
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
FreedomDemocracyChristianEarth
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
Frances Beinecke
EnergyEarthPollutionOilMore
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
Jules Verne
MoonAttentionEarthAlwaysShare
I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.
Rick James
ThinkLongEarthPlayGoingBecause
It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and things go badly for us and our civilization, the Earth is pretty resilient.
EndEarthGoCivilizationPossible
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